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1787 December 20. (to James Madison) "Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to ; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty."

-Thomas Jefferson

1789 January 8. (to Richard Price) "...wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government..."

-Thomas Jefferson

1816 January 6. (to Charles Yancey) "if a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be."

-Thomas Jefferson

1816 April 24. (to Dupont de Nemours) "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day . . . . I believe it [human condition] susceptible of much improvement, and most of all, in matters of government and religion; and that the diffusion of knowledge among the people is to be the instrument by which it is effected."

-Thomas Jefferson

[Borges]

As a nation we must not abandon cursive writing. It is the sign of a free people. The tyranny of the printed word is the syntactical equivalent of our status under the Crown and the Israelites under Nebuchadnezzar.

- Thomas Jefferson

P.S. This it not a real quote.